Nas View On Takeover According to Hip Hop Journalist Toure

[Da_Eggman]

Nas himself has said he initially wasn’t going to respond to Takeover because he simply didn’t care. His mother was sick, he was going through shyt with Carmen, he and Steve Stoute weren’t seeing eye to eye, etc.

Jungle is the one who convinced Nas to respond, that and the fact that the streets were telling him Takeover was a career ender. The streets just wouldn’t let it go so he knew he had to go to war.

Nas never thought much of Jay as an MC, he had to have his eyes opened to how much Jay had ascended in the eyes of the Hip Hop culture. Once he grasped just how serious the situation was he went all in.

Streets(jungle) keep calling heard it when I was sleep…

 

[seemorecizzy]

It was an old as article in I think Blaze magazine that I remember referencing at the time of the beef. Closest I could find is in Nas list of his favorite 25 albums where he names Reasonable Doubt amongst it.

Nas' 25 Favorite Albums

Nasty Nas talks about his favorite albums from John Coltr...

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Jay-Z, Reasonable Doubt (1996)​

Label: Roc-A-Fella

Nas: “I seen this kid Jay, I already knew he was nice. I’m watching him come into the game and he delivered a lyrical album, a street album, and he grabbed his spot. A lot of people couldn’t do that. A lot of people that were putting out albums around the time Reasonable Doubt dropped are no longer around.

“He staked his claim. He showed everyone he was nice with his lyrics, he was nice with it. He came in the tradition of the New York streets, the way I did, the way Biggie did. He came in that way and he’s been holding it down ever since. If you listen to Reasonable Doubt, he made it happen.”

this is post beef
and he still calling jay a kid like jay isnt older than him

 

[So-Chi]

Let me tell brehs... The Vegas experience was one of the dopest concert experiences I've had. Venues is dope, felt like the nikka was gonna pass me the mic AZ doing Sugar Hill, hoes dancing to "You Owe Me".. If you can go to a show before he's done with this run, DO that shyt.